Tonkaccino
Lavender and cardamom open cool and aromatic, the black-currant tint giving the top a faintly tart lift that keeps the herbs from turning soapy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Almond70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Black Currant
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Patchouli
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and cardamom open cool and aromatic, the black-currant tint giving the top a faintly tart lift that keeps the herbs from turning soapy. Cinnamon quickly folds into patchouli, the duo warming the heart while a thin espresso ribbon adds roasted bitterness that stops the spice from becoming bakery-sweet. As the accord settles, tonka bean and almond merge into a marzipan-cream layer, musk shearing off excess sugar so the finish feels like skin-warmed pastry rather than dessert. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, then retracts to a soft nut-laced haze that works best under sweaters in cool weather. The fragrance reads casual yet polished, translating coffee-shop comfort into office-appropriate volume without turning gourmand-shout.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.